The Art Newspaper TV select their highlights from Frieze Art Fair 2011.

Kevin McGarry writes about artist Oliver Laric's project for Frieze Art Fair 2011 on The New York Times, T Magazine blog, The Moment. Take a look at Oliver's video clips from Frieze and download them for free from here: http://friezestockfootage.friezeartfair.com/ Oliver Laric is an artist who rarely has anything new to say. His work frames the creative potential of repetition, championing the idea of “the copy” as denser in meaning and, in this day and age, somehow more genuine, than any notion of a true “original.” A copy has simply lived more: it contains within it not just the image or idea at hand, but also the imprint of time, place or identity linked with that moment as well as the motive of duplication. “Versions,” Laric’s video treatise on this subject, features an animated slide show of contemporary copies (the infamously Photoshopped 2008 image of missile tests in Iran, in which the missiles were cloned for heightened visual impact; Internet memes like the Zidane head butt, remixed and disseminated by users around the world); and historical antecedents (recycled character animations from early Disney movies; figurative archetypes taken from classical sculpture) that trace its relevance back to far before copy and paste was a way of life. Laric updates the piece regularly, and now a handful of versions of “Versions” are circulating online with many of his other works, causing discrepancies and redundancies that surface as a digitally savvy form of authenticity. Invited to create a site-specific project for this year’s Frieze Art Fair, Laric chose the fair itself as his subject. With a super-high-res camera recording in slow motion, the Austrian-born artist roamed Regent’s Park, gathering audio-visual samples to distribute as open source stock footage. It’s unclear whether the gossamer fabric falling across the frame was found in a windy installation or in the garb of a collector; if the screw driven into a two-by-four is a last-minute fix or some kind of performance. Laric playfully undermines the obsessions that fuel the existence of an art fair — context, value, ownership — by obliterating any frame of reference for these clips and allowing anybody to reappoint them for new readings and for telling new stories.

COS celebrates its support of Frame at Frieze Art Fair with a Simon Elephant-directed short film.

Frieze Art Fair is delighted to announce that the winner of the Emdash Award 2011 is the video and performance artist Anahita Razmi, who is based in Stuttgart. Razmi’s previous works have dealt with issues concerning identity and gender, employing objects with a national and cultural significance or citing the work of high-profile female artists.

For Frieze Art Fair 2011, sponsored for the eighth year by Deutsche Bank, Razmi will present a new commission that intends to draw attention to how Tehran's skyline was recently used by protestors after the Iranian presidential election. She will use choreographer Trisha Brown’s 1971 work Roof Piece, which took place on 12 different rooftops over a ten-block area in downtown New York, as its point of departure. The work will be presented as a video installation at Frieze Art Fair.

The Emdash Award allows an emerging artist based outside the UK to realise a major project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects programme. Sarah McCrory, curator of Frieze Projects, commenting on the announcement said: ‘Anahita Razmi's unique proposal references a seminal work by Trisha Brown, a work which is 40 years old this year. Razmi's recontextualisation adds a new dimension to the piece which is at once provocative, insightful and timely.’

The Emdash Award is supported by the Emdash Foundation, a private foundation with a mission to support new ideas and emerging talent across disciplines, from the arts and cultural projects to science. Andrea Dibelius, Founder of Emdash said: ‘Emdash is delighted that the selection panel has named Anahita Razmi as the winner of the 2011 Emdash Award. Her proposal was selected from amongst 579 applications of highest quality. Razmi's art embodies the principles of the Foundation in an exemplary way: thought provoking, supporting new ideas, and allowing for reflection, while focusing on a very topical issue of our times.’